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Sooner or later, small-to-medium-size businesses engaging the e-commerce market and looking to grow must buy into a more workable solution for the demanding customer experience. StoreConnect and Salesforce transform SMB e-commerce by improving customer experience and enabling scalable growth.

As the holiday shopping season approaches, the timing of SMS marketing messages takes on heightened importance. Effective scheduling not only influences consumer engagement and open rates but also plays a crucial role in achieving sales success.

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Dr. Salesforce

Navigating the transition from CRM 2.0 to CRM 3.0 requires a focus on ethics and proactive problem-solving, paralleling trends in modern medicine. Some CRM vendors, like Salesforce, are trying to instill the idea.

SugarCRM is incorporating predictive AI to enhance its CRM capabilities, offering sales agents data-driven insights for more effective decision-making.

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Beyond AI at CloudWorld

Last week, I was all over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) like a junkyard dog. In the quarter-mile race that is the software industry, I have to say that from a standing start, Oracle has done quite well.

Oracle unveiled AI-driven enhancements at Oracle CloudWorld 2023, aiming to optimize CRM and customer experiences through generative AI technologies.

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AI Is Already at a Tipping Point

Even at this early point in the AI era, we may be seeing a divergence. On one side, we can easily see vendors bending over backward to deliver ethical AI apps and services, and on the other, a real conundrum. I

Oracle is announcing that it has added AI in critical spots like Intelligent Sales Orchestration, Guided Campaigns, AI-Powered Account Linking, and more. All of it is intended to help sellers do the right things with the right customers at the right time.

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Einstein 1 and the Big Shift

Salesforce is coming very close to being able to say that regardless of what incumbent software vendors are already in a business's portfolio, Salesforce should be there, too.

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Hope May Have Landed at Dreamforce

What’s been missing in the losing contest against "bad social" has been an ability to chase down misinformation to the root and to overpower it with truth. That’s exactly what AI can do.

Inaccurate product information sows confusion, undermines trust, and boosts return rates, costing retailers both revenue and credibility. Learn why smart retailers invest in product information systems.

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A Look Ahead at Oracle CloudWorld

A preview of Oracle's CloudWorld, exploring AI advancements, kinetic data, and how emerging tech could reshape industries and create new opportunities.

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Dreamforce Continues With Spotlight on AI

Salesforce tees up Dreamforce 2023 in San Francisco next week. While it's a reincarnation of past events that took place without facemasks, much has changed in the last few years, both for the company and almost everything else in our culture. Some good, some not so much.

This year presents a distinct set of challenges for marketers, as fluctuating economic conditions and changing consumer trends add complexity to inventory planning and delivery logistics.

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